The election in Quebec today is evidence of the famous quote, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Plus ça change, in other words.  The CAQ government will now be exchanged for its ostensibly more separatist version, the Parti Quebecois, with threats of a new referendum (although there is virtually no chance…

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels. — Margaret Thatcher, Speech to the College of Europe (the “Bruges speech”), 20 September 1988 On September 16, 2026, without a mandate, without…

Here I am at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, drinking bourbon that is mostly verboten in Canada. A toast to bringing it back, as soon as possible, to shelves north of the border. Elbows up is not the way. Unless you are drinking.